Episode 457: DOWNLINK--Jeff Williams, Exum Instruments
Learn with us about mass spectrometry's history and state of the art from someone building a desktop version.
The Orbital Mechanics Podcast · The Orbital Mechanics
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Show Notes
Spaceflight News
— Voyager is communicative! (blogs.nasa.gov)
— ESA debris removal mission finds a new target (satellitetoday.com)
Short & Sweet
— China releases a lunar landing update (spacenews)
— TESS enters safe mode… again (nasa.gov)
Questions, Comments, Corrections
— Dennis O: SOFIA clarifications (discord.com) (youtube.com)
— VAXheadroom shot SOFIA some footage in 2012 (youtube.com) (youtube.com)
Interview -- Jeff Williams, CEO/CTO Exum Instruments
— Jeff co-authored a paper that is a good primer on spectroscopy and Massbox (spectroscopyonline.com)
— linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-williams-372118128
This Week in Spaceflight History
— 9 Apr, 1999: Titan IVB (402) takes DSP-19 (USA 142) to GEO (astronautix.com) (klabs.org)
— 30 Apr, 1999. Titan IVB (401) takes Milstar-3 (USA 143) to GEO (washingtonpost.com) (PDF: direct.mit.edu VIA direct.mit.edu)
— Next week (5/7 - 5/13) in 1963: Not a good day for trypanophobics